Mafia Wars
(This review contains
spoilers!)
To say this episode left me confused
would be an understatement. With the third storyline coming to a close, I would’ve
thought that it would’ve ended off a little better than this, but oh well.
We rejoin Luluco as she’s run away to
an orange hued planet run entirely by mafia sharks after Nova’s rejection of
her last week. I’m sure that this planet is a reference to something, I just couldn’t tell you what. There, she meets a group
of detectives who she tries to get her to help both find Ogikubo and help her
with her boy troubles.
The first problem of this episode is
that, unlike the previous two, this planet isn’t interesting in the slightest.
The fact that everything is coloured orange with black outlines is more
distracting than it is a good art style choice, and it’s hard to follow exactly
what the characters are doing because everything sort of blends together. My
solution for this was to just follow Luluco, as she kept her usual colours.
The new characters are also not very
interesting. Unlike the last two weeks, where we had the shapeshifter and the
little witch girl, all these characters feel tropey and boring. This is even
further pounded in with the fact that none of them really get any screen time,
and almost all the characters onscreen look pretty much identical, which is a
shame for a show that’s proved time and time again that it’s exceptional at
writing characters.
After several minutes of yelling and
fighting, Nova swoops in to save Luluco, and he confesses his love. This is all
fine and dandy, but because we saw last week that he didn’t really share her
feelings for him, it kind of comes out of nowhere. Still, it’s a nice scene, and
I’m glad Nova finally has something to do other than stand around and look
pretty.
The episode ended with the crew
arriving at the center of the universe, at Space Patrol HQ. Upon arriving, the
head of Space Patrol gives everyone a promotion and Ogikubo is found!
That just begs the question, though;
where’s Luluco’s mother? She still has the rest of her dad’s body, so I get the
feeling that we haven’t seen the last of her. Plus, with how quickly everything
wrapped up, plus the Chief’s comments on how headquarters seems different than
usual, I get the feeling that all may not be what it seems.
To be completely honest, I’m kind of
glad this arc’s over. While it had a fantastic start, it felt a bit like filler
as it went on. Plus, the whole “hunting for Ogikubo” and how there are millions
of Ogikubos in the universe wasn’t explained very well, so it wasn’t hard to
feel like they were just going in circles the whole time. Hopefully Luluco can
swing back in full force for the final storyline next week.
FINAL SCORE
5/10
Average
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